Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Quotations
Democracy
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
